The evolution of the EU’s internal structure will be driven both by external challenges and by internal pressures to forge collective policies in order to maintain institutional coherence and deliver effective, consistent responses to major external challenges. Some of the EU’s vulnerabilities result from the fact that European strategies sometimes do not take into account lacking resources required for their implementation and do not fully consider organizational needs to effectuate awareness and increase resilience. Given the experience of several crises of different type in recent years, the EU internal framework is going to change further, with an emphasis on institutional qualities and European capabilities to provide comprehensive support to the European citizens in times of crisis.
While EU Member States agreed on introducing the concept of the security of the Union as a whole into the Lisbon Treaty, both the political and the public sector considerably vary across countries in their perceptions and concepts of security. The concept of security in the EU so far has been the resultant of Union-level initiatives and national repertories of action. Member States continue to rest on distinguished symbols of what they value and safeguard. There are different public and citizen security cultures, which usually leads to clearly nationally informed priorities. Divergences of such kind notwithstanding, the future concept of security as well as of security research can be expected to be informed by the European Security Model as outlined in the EU Internal Security Strategy. This includes addressing the causes of insecurity and not just its effects, with priorities on prevention across sectors (political, economic, social, etc.).
The evolution of the EU’s internal structure will be driven both by external challenges and by internal pressures to forge collective policies in order to maintain institutional coherence and deliver effective, consistent responses to major external challenges. Some of the EU’s vulnerabilities result from the fact that European strategies sometimes do not take into account lacking resources required for their implementation and do not fully consider organizational needs to effectuate awareness and increase resilience. Given the experience of several crises of different type in recent years, the EU internal framework is going to change further, with an emphasis on institutional qualities and European capabilities to provide comprehensive support to the European citizens in times of crisis.
While EU Member States agreed on introducing the concept of the security of the Union as a whole into the Lisbon Treaty, both the political and the public sector considerably vary across countries in their perceptions and concepts of security. The concept of security in the EU so far has been the resultant of Union-level initiatives and national repertories of action. Member States continue to rest on distinguished symbols of what they value and safeguard. There are different public and citizen security cultures, which usually leads to clearly nationally informed priorities. Divergences of such kind notwithstanding, the future concept of security as well as of security research can be expected to be informed by the European Security Model as outlined in the EU Internal Security Strategy. This includes addressing the causes of insecurity and not just its effects, with priorities on prevention across sectors (political, economic, social, etc.).